Relationship with University of South Carolina. The M.D. program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville builds on an already successful, 20-year-old partnership between the University of South Carolina and Greenville Health System (GHS).
The pound sign (Â£) is the symbol for the pound sterling âthe currency of the United Kingdom (UK).The same symbol is used for similarly named currencies such as the Gibraltar pound or occasionally the Syrian pound.It is also sometimes used for currencies named lira, for example the now withdrawn Italian lira, and on rare occasion, the Turkish lira.he same symbol is used for similarly named currencies such as the Gibraltar pound or occasionally the Syrian pound. It is also sometimes used for currencies named lira, for example the now withdrawn Italian lira, and on rare occasion, the Turkish lira.
The use of the phrase pound sign to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. Before this time, and still outside the U.S., the term pound sign was used to refer to the pound currency symbol (Â£) or the pound weight symbol (lb). An alternative theory is that this name arose from the fact that character encodings used the same code for both the number sign and the British pound sign Â£.